NASA is dropping major hints that it has found a planet a lot like our own. While the U.S. space agency has not announced the news just yet, the big reveal is expected to happen at a Thursday press conference that NASA is holding about the Kepler Space Telescope project.

Wired notes that it's unusual for Kepler to be the subject of such a press conference, further fueling speculation that the announcement is about to be, well, pretty Earth-shattering. Here's a snippet of the press...